lucid 20100324 alternate cd: "no common cdrom drive" error

[ceg]

Binary package hint: debian-installer

Install fails with debian installer complainig about not finding a common cdrom drive.

A module missing on CD?
The machine has a regular ide (pata) combo drive that works fine with the 9.10 alternate installer.

(For hardware specs see ubuntu-bug attatchments created from installed 9.10 system)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Mar 24 23:53:22 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
MachineType: FUJITSU SIEMENS D1605
MemoryUsage:
 total used free shared buffers cached
 Mem: 1023000 744596 278404 0 31220 277624
 -/+ buffers/cache: 435752 587248
 Swap: 2355192 0 2355192
Package: debian-installer (not installed)
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=/dev/mapper/vg0-root ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: debian-installer
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
dmi.bios.date: 09/10/2004
dmi.bios.vendor: FUJITSU SIEMENS // Phoenix Technologies Ltd.
dmi.bios.version: 4.06 Rev. 1.10.1605
dmi.board.name: D1605
dmi.board.vendor: FUJITSU SIEMENS
dmi.board.version: S26361-D1605
dmi.chassis.type: 6
dmi.chassis.vendor: FUJITSU SIEMENS
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnFUJITSUSIEMENS//PhoenixTechnologiesLtd.:bvr4.06Rev.1.10.1605:bd09/10/2004:svnFUJITSUSIEMENS:pnD1605:pvr:rvnFUJITSUSIEMENS:rnD1605:rvrS26361-D1605:cvnFUJITSUSIEMENS:ct6:cvr:
dmi.product.name: D1605
dmi.sys.vendor: FUJITSU SIEMENS

[Brett Sheffield (brett-gladserv)]

Hit this while installing Lucid Server from today's build.

cdrom is an IDE Asus DRW2014L1 which operates correctly under 9.10 and earlier.

[Brett Sheffield (brett-gladserv)]

Possibly related:

"most PATA/SATA modules missing in Lucid netboot"

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+source/linux/+bug/546929

[TJ (tj)]

This also affects the PowerPC port.

The workaround is to decline to try loading drivers from removable media, then to accept the option to select loadable modules. At that point the only offer (on the PPC) was "none". Select that and the next dialog requests the device name of the CD-ROM drive.

In the case of the iMac G4 PowerPC it is "/dev/hdb" (which can be determined by switching to tty2 (Alt+F2), pressing Enter to start a busybox prompt, and then doing "ls -l /dev/?d?" and looking for sdX or hdX devices that *are not* the hard drive.

[ceg (ceg)]

Is this still an issue with Bug #546929 fixed in beta2?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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